The Mets are in agreement with veteran outfielder Mike Tauchman on a minor league contract, report Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic. The Meister Sports Management client will be in camp as a non-roster invitee once he completes a physical.
More to come.
Surprised he had to settle for a minor league deal. He’s probably a shoe in to make the roster though.
For someone who has had at least league average stats over the last three years, only getting a minor league contract is surprising. He would have been an upgrade for the Angels in right field (or wherever Soler is supposed to play)
Every team outside of Chicago hates this guy. Guys been a bargain every year. Such a obvious sign and teams pass. He’s nearing the could decline and be out of mlb age but a mlb deal with a few million bet couldn’t be a bad one. At worse you lost a few million. Mets did epically well here.
Savant has him decidedly slowing down. Both in foot speed and in bat speed. He managed to put up good numbers despite that . But those are serious red flags of decline.
Likely just for roster management until they open up a 40-man and 26-man spot. He’ll either be on the MLB roster come Opening Day and allowed to move on.
He might be a shoe in for a lot of playing time if Benge doesn’t make the MLB club out of camp.
Good player
Yeah thats why he signed in the middle of Feb. rolls eye’s
@noquarter: It’s spelled “shoo-in.” The expression has nothing to do with footwear.
I really thought he would get a better deal than Castellanos.
Tauchman is 35+ years old. He’s reached Jake Taylor status when it comes to playing baseball: “here’s to one more good year in the sun.”
Dana Brown. What the F is wrong with you? Couldn’t get him on a minor league deal. You suck!
There’s a reason this dude is getting a minor league deal. Halfway thru February. He just ain’t that good.
He’s a league average hitter. Actually slightly above. He was worth 2 bWAR in like 400 PA’s last year. That’s, like, good good, not just sort of good. Very weird. Maybe one of those circumstances where he had personal or family reasons to be in a certain place and just waited until he got something from a certain team. Cuz yeah, Houston’s been screaming about left handed outfielders all off-season. They ain’t doin better than Tauch.
I don’t care what the computers say. Dude just isn’t that valuable at his age.
@Seamaholic – Houston could have had Jarren Duran if they didn’t overvalue Parades so much. A player like Duran easily returns a Parades and a Top 10 prospect in the system but Houston didn’t want to part with any decent minor league player.
Is he really any better than Zach Cole or Joey Loperfido? I don’t think so.
Yes. Regardless, it’s good to have depth. All those guys you mentioned still have minor league options. Tauchman was the best LH OF still on the market. I’d still look out for Michael Conforto & Jesse Winker…but Tauchman was the one I really wanted in Houston.
1.5M in MLB and pays him $800K in minors for Conforto on a split deal? If we get Winker on a deal, it should be a MiLB deal to annoy the Mariners
Yes! I would definitely sign both now that Tauchman is off the board. Can get both for pennies & hope that they each bounce back to their very good form in ‘24. Both were very productive in 2024.
Much.
Excellent. Ive been wondering/waiting for them to sign a serviceable OFer.
Low key good move by Stearns
Light hitting, little speed, average at best defense, and spent a year in Korea in 2022/23. Nice depth move at could be a nice 5th OFer
Dude he had 3 WAR/600 last year on a 112 OPS+. He’s not light hitting.
But what does he do?
He buys time for the development of Carson Benge.
His old coach Mendy doing him a favor so he can show what he’s got left. He may have an opt out if he doesn’t make the team out of Spring Training, or he could choose to go to AAA and see if anyone gets hurt. They can make room for him on the 40, not sure about the 26 without an injury to an OF. A decent depth pickup.
Probably has opt out.
“More to come.”
I’m good.
Just write the title and we will take care of the rest.
Solid move. Really underrated.
What’s the affinity to this guy? It’s cultish. He’s toast and he was never any good.
He hit better than average the last 3 years and can give you average glove work in the outfield, seems like a good stopgap for the outfield if benge doesn’t work out. All for a minor league deal? Seems like a steal
Or the super highly unlikely scenario Robert goes on IL.
A+ steal to have this for minor league depth.
Tauchman is definitely in that class of player who is treated as Quadruple-A, but tends to provide enough that he’s far more on the major league side of that label.
.740 OPS and .359 OBP the past three seasons and this is all he could get? Needs to find a new agent.
Dave-O at it again.
Hope he makes the team or gets on with someone else. Dude won at least 3 games with his glove when he was with the Giants in 2021
Somewhere the dude who thinks Travis Jankowski is better than Soto is curled up in a ball crying.
Because the Mets signed him we’re going to get 500 responses from 5 Mets fans.
How dare met fans make comments on a thread about their team. For shame.
I am just waiting for Red Sox guys to take over somehow. This thread needs to be about Devers!
Right, I mean what a heinous atrocity. Mets fans making comments on a Mets thread.
He’s really slow out there in the outfield. Watched enough of him this past year (when he was actually able to stay healthy).